Apparition

As Scrappy9 Says "I was amazed at what I saw, if these people are the cream out of 10,000 plus applicants then god help us."

The scarey thing is, that these type of folk in 10 - 20 years could well be running big companies or even the country.... be very afraid.
Yve

Trout

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Just watched it on the web - excellent.

Price - well the retail will be £10, can you give me £7 per unit?

Are you f**king insane

£10 is £8.50 before VAT.

I can just imagine Virgin retail biting your arm off for a 15% mark up.

Clueless, completely clueless!

Holy Ghost

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quite right.

god, both teams were an absolute shambles and a fluke win for the boys. what. a. shower. nargis - never seen anything like that before - utterly butterly useless. i was watching through my fingers

research? pricing? bunch of inept show ponies so far.

jo is a total mentalist. either divorced (drove spouse insane) or serially single (drives all partners insane). in HR? well **** me. sugar throws her a lifeline at the end, she throws it straight back. outstanding.

Ansell, Paul (CWG) and Karen for the final three for me.

just FANTASTIC viewing ...

Holy Ghost

"did you know that there are six million cats in the UK and most of the owners live in london?"

FPMSL.

Neverguess

Ansell has my vote so far for the guys and Karen for the girls but others still need more airtime to make a balanced desicion. Love the program

I quite liked Tuan (sp??) as well.....welll I did until he started crying He seems pretty clued up though

Scooby Snacks 23

That Alexa girl works at my company, and they've been promoting the programme and telling us all to watch.

Call me old fashioned, but would you want to actively promote one of your staff who wants to leave their job with you to join another company??

She gets booted off soon, if she hasn't already!

MikeCardiff

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The thing that cracks me up is the really arrogant ones who some across with all the 'I'm 5hithot at my job, I'm the man' sort of BS - if you're that good, why have you left to try and work for Sugar ? or are you just hoping for a career presenting daytime TV out of it ?

If I was Sugar I'd base my decision on a much more professional criteria - all the blokes have a 100m space hopper race and first across the line wins, all the women give a bl0w job, and the best wins ( points deducted for crying or looking like a man in drag ).

The man and woman could then compete to see who could get their head furthest up 'Sir Alans' ****.

MikeCardiff

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Scooby Snacks - did they let her come back to work then or had she left for good before doing the prog ?

oobster

Ex-MG HR woman (jo) deserves to be kicked in the head by a strong horse, multiple times. The her cold dead carcass strung up from the London Eye for all to see.

Oh My God I Hate That Woman.

Scooby Snacks 23

She's still here, having not actually left!!!

Holy Ghost

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what IS it with all the blubbing?? there was samuel looking like he was forcing the tears for the camera, tuan throwing a red-eyed rod and jo welling up at every opportunity.

we're all used to birds doing an occasional gavin hastings when under pressure at work but this is bizarre. men of the apprentice! where is your dignity? your stiff upper lip? you're a disgrace to your gender!

are we breeding a nation of girly-men? whatever happended to quiet professionalism? discuss.

Tiggs

so much is foced by the producers though...they will have an off camera chat with someone who will say something they like...then they'll grab a camera and get them to repeat it...out of context and with editing = they look like fools!

i was on reality TV show a while ago and they asked me to repeat loads of stuff i had said off air for the camera....they edited it and i came accross very differentlyto how i had intended!

Holy Ghost

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good point - it's entertainment after all.

RAJ27

I fancy the lawyer bird. She would win in my books

Trout

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The young blonde is quite cute

Holy Ghost

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you'd let her use your dictaphone then?

Flatcapdriver

Unfortunately, you're right but they seem to have taken the telly element a bit too far this time. At least in the first series, they had some people who actually knew what they were doing whereas this series seems to be a collection of idiots parading before the cameras.

There isn't one professional salesman on there. If one of my junior salesman made a presentation to a buyer like either of the two last night, I'd sack him straight away and I guarantee he wouldn't start blubbing when I did.

Too much entertainment and not core skills being demonstrated. Still compulsive viewing though, if more irritating than before.

Warwick-hunt

what does sugar actually sell, i've only ever seen those crap email phones

imlach

Amstrad is involved in PCs (Viglen), satellite boxes (Sky+ etc), amonst other things.

brihoppy

ive really enjoyed watching this as i didnt see the first series, but as mentioned earlier, if this is the best lot out of 10000 applicants, it doesnt say much about the calibre of people AMS would have working for him...

i could do a better bloody job for half as much...!!!

Tiggs

http://www.amstrad.com/products/index.html

the face care machine is the thing that last years winner has the job of heading up (on his own and with a budget of £12.78 i think)

Trout

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It was on again tonight.

Jo, who Alan describes as a bloody nutter, is almost unwatchable.

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!!

And tell me you cannot get a dinner jacket in London for less than £75 - course you can!

Apparition

Don't they have Oxfam shops round there ? Nice DJ £15
How can someone spend almost 3 hours discussing how to go about obtaining 10 items?
They are beyond belief.
Am I mistaken or , did both teams have a problem using the yellow pages ?
Yve

imlach

All items had to be bought new....hence why they couldn't use charity shops etc.

mart360

What got me is they spent 3 hours poncing and not one of them thought to use a phone or the web,

the asian guy for all his faults actually managed to get some of the items very cheaply,

cant believe the girls struggled to get a tyre!!!

I think the next round of fireforks will be with the sales manager (ruth??) and loopy jo,

mind you even AS thinks shes a nutter, but admitted so is he,

at the end of the day, he,s not looking for a whiz kid or an analyst, he,s loking for someone similar to him, remember he,s a leader not a manager, leaders want people like them.

Mart

Apparition

Point taken Imlach.
That's what annoyed me about last night's prog. Not enough info about the actual list. I was left wondering what the rules were. I got the impression they were told they could NOT use the net. Even so, I'd have thought they would have dived straight into the Yellow Pages and got stuck in phoning around , preparing a list and a route then off into the wide blue yonder to do the deed. Not pontificating about strategies etc.
Saints preserve us !
Yve